Monday, May 15, 2017

If this project has little time allowed, then I teach them about mushroom's role in the environment.

They work as decomposers, taking the dead plants and animals and pulling out any left nutrients from them to grow. They do not need/use sunlight. They do not grow from a seed, instead from spores that are released in the air from the gills of other mushrooms.

Many mushrooms are unsafe to eat. Some mushrooms attack other plants.

There is a world of knowledge out there on Youtube and the WWW about these amazing "plants".